We Should Trade a Wall For a Dream Act
Many of us on the Progressive side of the aisle feel border security was always a question of conditions throughout the world. If things were hunky-dory in Italy after the First World War, Grandpa Elmo may never have felt the urge to emigrate with his family. If the potato crop hadn’t succumbed to The Blight, my red-headed cousins-in-law would still be drinking Dublin dry. The migration patterns of humanity never took a knee at the foot of any wall. One doesn’t need to be Batman or Robin Hood to accomplish the breech. History tells us physical walls are both a waste of resources and a poorly-stated message to the rest of the world. Obviously, I hate the very idea of a man-made barrier running through the border region. It would interfere with wildlife migration. In places, it would impose itself onto private property (although I don’t understand why every square inch of border property isn’t already under Federal control). And let’s not forget our 6th grade geography, when it was pointed out that the Rio Grande meanders in places, making its role in border demarcation a bit inexact. It’s a bad idea all around. It’s not quite as childish an idea as Brexit, but it certainly needs a permanent timeout.
And yet, I would make a personal monetary contribution toward the design and construction of the Southern Border Wall in exchange for a final decision in favor of the children of…
